Clear Thumbnails, please!!

Hi there,

I'm quite new to photoshop, so here is my firest question.

How can I make a focused thumbnails from a website to a portfolio?

I do "print screen" and then reduce its size in Pshp. The problem is that the picture becomes fuzzy and not clear.
I do filter--> sharpen but it's not enough( I save it as gif or jpeg but still same problem.

Any tip will help me a lot!!!

It depends on how small yo want it. You can also just take a small part of the site, like the header and some of the content so you won't have to shrink it that much.

How are you reducing the size? If you're just trying to shrink it by adjusting the Image Size, that will make it fuzzy.

What I do is, have the full screen in PS, then Select > All, then use the Numeric Transform to scale it down, (Edit > Transform > Numeric), by adjusting the width\height percentage.

You can see how these 600 x 400 images turned out done like that:

http://thewaltdisneynut.com/parks/magickingdom/frontierland/splash.shtml


Or here, where I took two seperate screen shots of the Disney site front page (due to the length of the page), stiched them together, and scaled them down. It's not super clear, but you can get the general idea of what the site looks like.

http://visualintensity.com/temp/

Hope that helps.

Thank you all.

I'll try those advices. I think it 'll be OK!!

sounds backwards I know....but try doing a guassian blur like 1.0 before you shrink it then sharpen after you get to the size you want.